femme fatale

this is a print that i made last year. i started the project by sorting through french magazines to find contrasting background and foreground images. after tracing both images on onion skin paper, i took a piece of rectangular plastic and copied the picture on to the plastic. i used a screw to carve out first the woman, and then the sixties swirls behind her. finally, i covered the finished engraving with a thick layer of black paint. with a paper towel, i wiped clean the plastic; removing all the paint except in the carved out sections. taking a piece of wet paper, i ran the paint-stained engraving through a printing press. after the first print was made, i could re-apply the paint and make prints on different types of paper (newspaper, a green onion skin paper, the transparent fabric like paper pictured above...)